It’s no secret that Liz Cheney has rattled a few cages in recent months. She is the face of the anti-Trump schism within the GOP, since she came out vocally and unambiguously against the insurrectionist in chief in January, condemning his part in the riot at the Capitol. That didn’t win her a lot of friends, because the rest of GOP leadership is too gutless to go on record against Trump. They’re hoping to just forget about the past and muddle forward, somehow, staying in power. Yes, Kevin McCarthy and Mike Pence, we’re talking about you.
It would indeed be a milestone, and one that would show the Republican party’s true colors, if they ousted Cheney. Axios:
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[Jim] Banks (R-Ind.), leader of the largest conservative caucus in the House, told Axios Friday that Cheney’s continued criticisms are “an unwelcome distraction,” and he questioned whether she would retain her leadership role in a month.
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Banks’ comments were echoed more diplomatically by Scalise (R-La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House.
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During an interview with Axios on Friday, he said of Cheney: “This idea that you just disregard President Trump is not where we are, and, frankly, he has a lot to offer still.”
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Earlier in the week, McCarthy himself told reporters: “If you’re sitting here at a retreat that’s focused on policy, focused on the future of making American next-century, and you’re talking about something else, you’re not being productive.”
And that was all before she fist bumped Joe Biden. Doing so showed a realization on her part of what everybody in politics knows, and that is, sooner or later the party in power is going to be the party out of power, and vice versa. It is a good idea to reach across the aisle. That is probably just one more reason why she’s anti-Trump. He treated the opposition party like foreign enemies and that might be good for a short reality TV run in the White House, but it’s not what lifelong political careers are made of.
Cheney (R-Wyo.) told reporters during several interviews at a GOP retreat in Orlando, Florida, that anyone challenging the 2020 election results should be disqualified from a presidential campaign in 2024, and that she herself would not rule out a run.
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She also said a commission to examine the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection should be narrowly focused — not the wide-ranging probe McCarthy favors.
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In addition, Cheney characterized a memo Banks wrote about how the party could retain working-class voters as “neo-Marxist.”
One thing is fairly certain: the open feud between Cheney and McCarthy cannot continue. But if anybody should go, it should be McCarthy, not Cheney.
Another thing to look at, and this is the biggy, is that Cheney is espousing traditional GOP values. She has the support of many high profile conservatives and she was given an “A” by the GOP Accountability Project, contrasting with McCarthy’s “F.” It’s not unreasonable to project that the party going forward has got to be either the party of conservatism or the party of Trump. This may be the showdown to decide which way things will go.
Both aspects of the GOP possibilities, Trump, or old school GOP, have some problems to overcome, not the least of which has and is showing a, “TELL”, this forward looking by Ms. Cheney, I think, has resonance with a higher percentage of regular Republicans … they are, one day at a time, climbing on the big barge floating the Biden administration’s progressive plans, which reward a larger place for regular Citizens of both parties, not just the hard line farts like Grassley and McConnell …
A bigger yet, problem exists on the state level here in Iowa, locked into a Republican fist of control with Congress people in both houses and a local miscreant Governor …
These are the ones to bust out if we want to enjoy the full Monty of Biden leadership … the Federal plans Can help, but we must not forget the re-district attempts and successes that cause imbalance in voting in multiple states …
That stuff comes from voters who keep electing candidates because they have “R” after their names. That’s a problem for the *state* parties.
The bigger problem comes much earlier–when the “voters who keep electing candidates because they have “R” after their names” only show up to cast that vote in November instead of shutting down the nuttiest (and, most typically, biggest far-right Teabbagging, Trumpists) during the primaries. Primary voting tends to attract the most “active” and most “vocal” members of a party, instead of the “average” member of the party.
I hear Jack Nicholson in The Departed when it comes to Cheney being ousted: “If you coulda, you woulda.” They had their shot at the first of this year and it’s doubtful the daughter of Darth Cheney has been lax in prepping for another attempt. These fools are just huffing.
They’re mad at her because she’s not supporting the former guy. You know, the one who left office three months ago and is now a lounge comedian at Mar-al-Ego.
don’t fuck with the cheney’s. darth cheney has people killed for fun.
Oh stop, that’s what they say about Hillary.